Belhaven Fruit Beer (Bottle)

Brewed by Belhaven (Greene King)
Style: Bitter
Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland

Bottle. Nice head with excellent duration. Color is dark golden. Aroma and taste are mild, sweet and fruity.

Bottle. Creamy off-white good mostly lasting head. Darl yellow colour. Moderate hoppy week berry aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. no berries detected. Oily palate. Boring beer.

Bottle. High creamy and good looking white and long long lasting head. Clear amber body. Some artificial berries aroma. Thin and watery flavor of berries and a bit of hops plus a metallic note. Generally pretty flat with low carbonation and a short aftertaste. Great lokks, boring taste.

Maybe a touch underdone by the punters at 2.59 but this is solid enough. Quite lagerish for my tastes; dulling suble malts, daggy hops, etc etc. Fruits are of the red variety; berries and the like. More supportive rather than driving flavour. Ok summer quaffer.

Bottle, 500ml. A clear golden colour with a large fizzy head. Aroma is summer berries with a touch of hoppiness. Taste has raspberry with hops and a touch of biscuity malt.Seems somewhat thin/watery. High carbonation. A little citrus in the finish. Not an awful lot of fruit, for a fruit beer. Not impressed.

Bottle from Sainsbury’s. A light ale base, mixed with a basket of assorted berries. The label does not tell us which. This concept does not work too well, the berries are too overstated and sweet. There is a nice mouthfeel afterwards of raspberry and blueberry - the tail is better than the body.

500ml bottle from Sainsburys. Amber with a thick cream head; aroma of blackberry and blackcurrant. Sweet with blackberry and raspberry flavours - rather too sweet for my taste.

Bottle. Amber coloured with a slight red tinge and a minimal head. Aroma of raspberry concentrate and some malt. Flavours of red fruit and blackberries, which seemed a bit forced and artificial before a dry finish. This seemed contrived and unconvincing, and one was quite enough for me.